Strengthening Social Network Responses to …...Mimi Kim Creative Interventions CPEDV Webinar May...

Strengthening Social Network Responses

to Domestic Violence

Mimi Kim

Creative Interventions

CPEDV Webinar

May 21, 2015

creative interventions

Questions

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•What are social network responses to domestic violence?

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•What is the broader political context for a call to this approach?

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•How are these different than our current responses & why does it matter?

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•What is one pathway we can use to engage social networks? Intro to Creative Interventions?

Key Concepts

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Social Networks

Transformative Justice

Community Accountability

Community-Based Interventions

over-reliance on criminalization

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Social Networks



Community-Based Interventions

over-reliance on criminalization

how do we make sense of this all?

Starting

with

Stories

He Korero Iti

A Small Story

We live in a town, but many of my husband’s extended

family (whanau) live in the valley where he grew up about 40 kilometres away. My husband and his brother are renowned for a number of things – one being how they extend the life of their cars and vans using highly technical items like string and wire – another how they share these vehicles for a variety of tasks such as moving furniture or transporting relatives, building materials, tractor parts, traditional herbal medicines (rongoa), eels, vegetables, dogs, and pigs (dead or alive). They are renowned for being people of the people, the ones to call on in times of trouble and death, the ones who will solve the problem and make the plan. They travel to and from town, to the coast to dive for sea food, to endless meetings, to visit extended family (whanau) - along the many kilometres of dirt roads in and around the valley, through flood or dust depending on the season in those patched up, beat up, prized cars.

There are a number of things to know about the valley - one is that the last 33 children in the world of their small subtribe (hapu ririki) to grow up and be educated on their own lands go to school here, despite government efforts to close the school. Another is that the valley is known to outsiders and insiders as ‘patu wahine’– literally meaning to ‘beat women’ and this is not said as a joke. The mountain for this valley is named as the doorway spirits pass through on their way to their final departure from this life. This valley is also the valley where my husband and his siblings were beaten at school for speaking their first language. It is the valley their mother sent them to so they would be safe from their father – back to her people. It is where they milked cows, pulled a plough, fed pigs but often went hungry, and were stock whipped, beaten and worse.

My brother-in-law still lives in the valley, in a group of houses next to the school. So it’s no surprise that one of our cars would be parked by these houses – right by where the children play. Perhaps also not a surprise that while playing that time old international game of rock throwing our eight year old nephew shattered the back window of the car. If I’d been listening I probably would have heard the ‘oh’ and ‘ah’ of the other children that accompanied the sound of glass breaking from town, and if I’d been really tuned in I would have heard the rapid, frightened heart beat of ‘that boy’ as well.

His mother is my husband’s cousin – and she was on the phone to us right away. She was anxious to assure us ‘that boy’ would get it when his father came home. His father is a big man with a pig hunter’s hands who hoists his pigs onto a meat hook unaided. He is man of movement and action, not a man for talking. Those hands would carry all the force of proving that he was a man who knew how to keep his children in their place. Beating ‘that boy’ would be his way of telling us that he had also learned his own childhood lessons well.

So before he got home we burned up the phone lines – sister to sister, cousin to cousin, brother –in-law to sister-in-law, wife to husband, brother to brother. This was because my husband and his brother know that there are some lessons you are taught as a child that should not be passed on. The sound of calloused hand on tender flesh, the whimpers of watching sisters, the smell of your own fear, the taste of your own blood and sweat as you lie in the dust – useless, useless, better not born. This is a curriculum like no other. A set of lessons destined to repeat unless you are granted the grace of insight and choose to embrace new learning.

So when the father of ‘that boy’ came home and heard the story of the window ‘that boy’ was protected by our combined love (aroha) and good humor, by the presence of a senior uncle, by invitations to decide how to get the window fixed in the shortest time for the least money. Once again phone calls were exchanged with an agreement being made on appropriate restitution. How a barrel of diesel turns into a car window is a story for another time.

Next time my husband drove into the valley it was to pick up the car, and ‘that boy’ was an anxious witness to his arrival. My husband also has very big hands, hands that belong to a man who has spent most of his life outdoors. These were the hands that reached out to ‘that boy’ to hug not hurt.

A lot of bad things still happen in the valley, but more and more they are being named and resisted. Many adults who learned their early lessons there will never return. For people of the land (tangata whenua) this is profound loss – our first identifiers on meeting are not our own names but those of our mountains, rivers, subtribe (hapu) and tribe (iwi). To be totally separate from these is a dislocation of spirit for the already wounded. This is only a small story that took place in an unknown valley, not marked on many maps. When these small stories are told and repeated so our lives join and connect, when we choose to embrace new learning and use our ‘bigness’ to heal not hurt then we are growing grace and wisdom on the earth.

A lot of bad things still happen in the valley, but more and more they are being named and resisted. Many adults who learned their early lessons there will never return. For people of the land (tangata whenua) this is profound loss – our first identifiers on meeting are not our own names but those of our mountains, rivers, subtribe (hapu) and tribe (iwi). To be totally separate from these is a dislocation of spirit for the already wounded. This is only a small story that took place in an unknown valley, not marked on many maps. When these small stories are told and repeated so our lives join and connect, when we choose to embrace new learning and use our ‘bigness’ to heal not hurt then we are growing grace and wisdom on the earth.

Di Grennell Whangarei, Aotearoa-New Zealand

Audio & transcript available at www.stopviolenceeveryday.org

What are your thoughts and feelings?

What are social networks?

How did this family/people’s histories contribute to violence?

How did the violence of the “state” or “government” contribute to violence? What are some factors within the broader political context that are important to think about?

How did this family and this people’s histories and cultures help to prevent the violence?

How do we as advocates fit in or not fit into this story?

Some Key Questions

What is

the

political

context?

Anti-Violence

Movement in

Crisis

overreliance on criminalization

CRISIS

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1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010

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U.S. Rates of Incarceration

1973

Data from Maguire, Kathleen, ed. (2003), Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. Albany, NY: University at Albany, Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, Table 6.28, p. 500; E. Ann Carson, and William J. Sabol (2012), Prisoners in 2011, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Table 6, p. 6; Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2012 – Advance Counts (2013).

1973 – 2012 increase 500%

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U.S. Rates of Incarceration

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Data from Maguire, Kathleen, ed. (2003), Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. Albany, NY: University at Albany, Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, Table 6.28, p. 500; E. Ann Carson, and William J. Sabol (2012), Prisoners in 2011, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Justice Statistics, Table 6, p. 6; Bureau of Justice Statistics in 2012 – Advance Counts (2013).

1973 – 2012 increase 500%

Feminist anti-violence movement

WHAT WE WANT

safety

safety

SWEPT INTO THE…

WHAT DO

SURVIVORS WANT

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

WHAT DO

SURVIVORS WANT

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

Stay safe at home

Stop violence

Keep homes and communities intact

WHAT DO

SURVIVORS WANT

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

Stay safe at home

Stop violence


WHAT DO

COMMUNITIES WANT

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

Stay safe at home

Stop violence


WHAT DO WE WANT

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

Stay safe at home

Stop violence


WHAT DO WE WANT

and what’s stopping us

What is

the current

context?

Social

Movements

Seek

Alternatives

Political Context mapping alternative landscape

community-based intervention

Restorative Justice

Juvenile justice reform in New Zealand

Move from punishment model

Elevate voice of victim

Harm is collective, not just individual

Collective responsibility


First promoted in US by generationFIVE

Rejection of criminal justice system

Started as survivor-led strategy & movement

Harm caused by systems & conditions

Collective/community self-determination


First promoted in US by Incite!

Rejection of criminal justice system

Intersection of gender & police violence

Harm caused by systems & conditions

Focus on practical, historical strategies

Historical Context Mapping Social Movements

Restorative Justice

More familiar & longer history

Often tied to criminal justice system

Better resourced & documented

Longer practice with youth

Legislation for youth

Transformative Justice/Community

Accountability More aligned with social justice movements &

values (especially communities of color)

Autonomous from and alternative to criminal justice system

Acknowledges harm caused by systems & social conditions

More flexible and adaptable

Supports collective/community action, power & self-determination

Current Context mapping alternative landscape

Defining


Transforming communities to change conditions that create, maintain, sustain and support oppression, exploitation, domination and harm to people, places, institutions generationFIVE

Adapted from Generation Five Transformative Justice and PPT from Kalei Kanuha.

Holistic Model of Transformative

Justice/Community Accountability

Adapted from PPT from Kalei Kanuha

Honoring safety, healing, and

agency of survivors of

violence

Engaging people who have done

harm in accountable and transformative

community-based processes

Transforming communities

from conditions of oppression &

harm to self-determination, equality, health and liberation

What

Options

Are We

Offering

Current

Domestic

Violence

Options

overreliance on criminalization

underdeveloped community response

CRISIS

Who are our first

responders?

Who are our first

responders? Family

Friends

Community

members

Neighbors

Clergy

Coworkers

Who gets the

resources?

Informal

Social

Networks

Formal

Social

Networks

Service

Providers

Government

Services

• Family

• Friends

• Neighbors

• Civic Groups

• Faith

Communities

• Social Clubs

• PTAs

• Police

• Courts

• DSS

• Shelter

• Health Care

• Schools

Service

Providers

Government

Services

© Close to Home 2008

How do we

strengthen

social

networks

responses to

domestic and

sexual

violence?

How do we

increase our

community

capacity to

respond to

domestic and

sexual

violence?

How do we

increase our

community

capacity to

respond to

domestic and

sexual

violence?

PREVENT

ION

EARLY

INTERVENTION

INTER-

VENTION

First

responders

Most

impacted by

violence

Know the

actors,

culture,

situations

Most

potential for

sustainable,

systemic

change

PREVENT

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EARLY

INTERVENTION

INTER-

VENTION

How do we

increase our

community

capacity to

respond to

domestic and

sexual

violence?

Sharing

Our Story: Creative

Interventions

Moving

Towards

Community-

Based

Alternatives

Escape to shelter

Arrest abuser

Leave relationship

Stay safe at home

Stop violence


What Do We Need to

Expand Our Options

Shift to Social

Networks

Prioritize community

& collective

Equip with

knowledge

Re-think safety

Coordinate

planning & action

Re-envision our role

shelters

advocacy

shelters

advocacy

criminal

justice BIP

shelters

advocacy

criminal

justice BIP

restorative

justice

shelters

advocacy

community knowledge

criminal

justice BIP

restorative

justice

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Make ending violence an everyday act.

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GOALS

• Create model and tools to support community-

based or social network responses to violence

• Make them accessible

• No jargon

• Free of charge

• Available on web

• Tools can be used by ANYBODY, not just service

providers

• Elevate role of community-based/social network

interventions as a legitimate response to violence

• Bring this way of thinking and skills part of

everyday practice and culture – increase community

capacity to intervene & end violence

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DEFINING COMMUNITY-BASED

INTERVENTION or SOCIAL NETWORK

RESPONSE

• Intervention: Action taken to address, end or

prevent violence

• Community-Based: Intervention is planned

and/or carried out by survivor, social network

(friends, family, community) and possibly with the

participation of the person(s) doing harm

• Role of Systems: • With the support of systems

• To reduce or manage the harm of systems

• As an alternative to systems

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RE-DEFINING ROLE OF PROVIDERS

• What is our role? What do we do? • We are facilitators – we are NOT the ones

carrying out the intervention

• We offer space (attention, energy and location)

for those experiencing violence to support their

intervention

• We offer knowledge and resources (stories,

tools, knowledge about dynamics of violence,

training on the model & tools)

• Who do we work with?

• Anyone in the social network/community faced

with violence

• Any community members interested in

being facilitators

3 Strategies

1 • Pilot community-based

interventions

2 • Collect stories of social

network responses

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• Work collectively with others to shift the movement

COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION

AWS

SHIMTUH NARIK

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• 5 collaborative partners

• 8 person team

• 3 year pilot

• 25 incidences of violence

• 100 individuals

COMMUNITY-BASED INTERVENTION

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Collective

Open-Ended Holistic

Creative/Flexible

Basic

Principles

GettingClear

Staying Safe

Mapping Allies

Supporting Survivors

Goal Setting

TAKING

ACCOUNT-

ABILITY

Working Together

Keeping on

Track

COMPONENTS OF THE CI MODEL

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Creative Interventions Toolkit What is the model? Is this model right for you? Stories to inspire and inform Lessons learned Tips and guidelines Tools to Mix and Match

Organized around components Includes facilitator notes Points for survivors, “allies”, those doing harm

www.creative-interventions.org

Evaluation Findings • Exploratory

• Many types of situations (long ago, current,

suspected violence)

• Offered options unavailable in other anti-violence

organizations

• Important to have space • Listen

• Open to consider all options

• Non-judgmental and open about options to stay in

abusive relationship or take unconventional actions

• Able to carry out safety measures unavailable in

other anti-violence organizations

• Need more supportive options for people doing

harm

• No additional harm reported

STORYTELLING & ORGANIZING

PROJECT

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• Many collaborative

partners

• Everyday stories

• All levels/types of

intervention

• May include methods

not necessarily

endorsed by Creative

Interventions

www.stopviolenceeveryday.org

SHIFTING THE MOVEMENT

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SHIFTING THE MOVEMENT

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We each have a role to play.

None of us can do this alone…

3 Strategies Products


interventions


network responses

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Toolkit



interventions


network responses

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Toolkit

StoryTelling & Organizing Project

(STOP Stories)



interventions


network responses

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Toolkit

StoryTelling & Organizing Project

(STOP Stories)

CI/Strengthening Social Networks

Training

What’s

Next?

Expanding

Transformativ

e Options for

Survivors,

Communities

and People

Doing Harm

Audre Lorde Project (New York); Bay Area Transformative Justice (Bay Area);

Casa Che of La Clinica de la Raza; Catalyst (NY); Challenging Male

Supremacy (New York); Chrysalis Collective (San Diego); Colorado Anti-

Violence Program (Denver); Communities against Rape & Abuse (CARA)

(Seattle); Community United against Violence (CUAV) (San Francisco);

CONNECT (New York); Creative Interventions (Oakland); Critical Resistance

(Oakland, Los Angeles, New Orleans, national); DataCenter (Oakland);

Dulwich Centre (Adelaide, Australia); Females United for Action (FUFA)

(Chicago); FIERCE (New York); Freedom, Inc. (Madison); Gender JUST

(Chicago); Generating Somatics (Oakland); Generation Five (Oakland and

national); Harm Free Zone (Durham, New York); local chapters and affiliates

of Incite! Women of Color against Violence (national); Institute for Family

Services (Somerset, NJ); Justice Now (Oakland); Ke Ala Lokahi (Hilo);

Kindred (Atlanta); Miami Worker’s Center (Miami); Project Nia (Chicago); NW

Network for Bisexual, Trans, Lesbian & Gay Survivors of Abuse (Seattle);

Queer People of Color Addressing Intimate Partner Violence (New York);

Queers for Economic Justice (New York); Revolution Starts at Home

Collective (national); San Francisco Women against Rape (SFWAR) (SF);

Rose City Copwatch (Portland); Shimtuh: Korean Domestic Violence and

Sexual Assault Program (Oakland); Sakhi; Sista II Sista (Brooklyn); Southern

California Library (Los Angeles); SpiritHouse (Durham, NC); StoryTelling &

Organizing Project (STOP) (Oakland and national); Streetwise and Safe (New

York); Support New York (New York); Sylvia Rivera Law Project (New York);

Ubuntu (Durham, NC); Third Path (Honolulu); Transforming Silence into

Action (TSIA) of Asian Women’s Shelter (San Francisco); Transgender,

Gender Variant & Intersex Justice Project (TGIP) (San Francisco); Women

and Girl’s Collective Action Network (Chicago); Young Women United

(Albuquerque); Young Women’s Empowerment Project (YWEP) (Chicago);

TransformNY

Building Alternatives

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Explore your role in shifting your organization (and the movement) Become familiar with the CI model, its components and tools Consider what and how this can add to your organization’s options for engaging friends, family and community Be in a learning community with other organizations exploring these options


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Explore your role in shifting your organization (and the movement) Become familiar with the CI model, its components and tools Consider what and how this can add to your organization’s options for engaging friends, family and community Be in a learning community with other organizations exploring these options Take the next step!


Networks Training

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